February 1, 2022 — From contributing cardie and good friend Liza Greenberg, I’ve recently picked up the saying, “Stay well and warm!” Feels good to say, doesn’t it? Like a little blessing.

Today we thought we’d take a break from the covid stats and blizzard warnings to below show you what’s trending in new cards. (Much more entertaining, isn’t it?!)

First let me point out that the card above may be categorized a Feel Better design, but it also seems like a fun Thinking of You for everyone stuck inside for one reason or another. But not this cutie!

I had just typed the lead of this story when Liza happened to send me this pic she’d taken of her four-month-old great-niece Piper Rose last weekend.

Despite the weather being a frigid (for Floridians :) 50 degrees, Piper was out and about, bundled up all snuggly to join the family for a walk through beautiful Morikami Museum and Japanese Gardens near their home in Boynton Beach.

Proud to say, Morikami’s gift shop has carried Cardthartic for many years and, in the Japanese Gardens, what a wonderful program they’ve developed in their Stroll for Well-Being.

Here’s Piper again with Aunt Liza. No worries, she wasn’t getting polar bear-snarly! Her sweet face is just perfectly poised to express what most of us here in Miami feel when the temps drop so low we have to don socks. “Mittens?!” she might very well be saying. “But, Auntie, I thought we lived in the Tropics?!”

Jodee Stevens
Founder & Chief Creative